From the disaster at andersonville is the human treatment of p. O. W. S defines our natural identity and reit rates our army values by ensuring dignity and respect is paid to every enemy combatant. Weve also learned how precious freedom is and that freedom always, always has a cost. The cost is paid by men and women, men and women who are willing to endure torture, mall nutrition, loneliness, despair and even death in the pursuit of freedoms cause. History tends to remember the dates. It remembers the battles and the victories. It lauds the winners and it favors grand action or man mental failure. But there are some places on the battlefield where dates and battles, winners and losers are matters of inconsequence. In these places survival is the only thing of magnitude. The men of andersonville have survived. They survived the 150 years of an indelible part of what makes our nation great, the american people. As i conclude time with you today, my hope is for the 13,000 souls lost here
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